Good News......

2014.03.24

What? I got to sleep in until 5:56 a.m. I am lucky. Then it was time to get the day going.

I hopped in the shower and as I started to wash my hair.............yes, it started falling out. My hair is so thick that I have a lot so it was more hair strands than usual that were in my hands. Even though I knew it was coming, this will be a challenge to handle this mentally. I blow dried my hair lightly just to get the damp out. Then when I started to put the styling gel in......my hands had a lot of hair stuck to them. OK, so how long will I hold out until I shave it?????????


I do find it fascinating that the if I grab a chunk of hair and pull gently it comes right out and doesn't hurt at all. The average head has about 100, 000 strands of hair, so it would take me about 16,000 pulls to get my hair out at the rate I was going today.......   (ok, just an unnecessary calculation on my part)

I continued with my morning routine, FB chats and we got the kids to school and went right to the hospital for the lab tests and the doctors appointment. The lab male nurse had no personality at all. He said 5 words during the short process and left a blue mark on my good arm which will be hooked up for chemo tomorrow. (Thank God my chemo nurse is excellent at putting the needle in my arm.)

The appointment with the doctor was about 2 hours after the lab so we hung out in a waiting room. During that time I went through the blog and wrote down all the quotes in my journal so I could have them saved all in one place. It will be comforting to read them tomorrow sitting in that hospital bed. The other thing I did was to deliver the chocolate chip cookies. I went to see the nurse and saw that she was out of the office until next week so I went into the other nurse who had helped us last time. I said Annika, it is your lucky day because Therese is not here. I made her some cookies but you will have to eat them instead. She was overjoyed. Even the doctor wanted a cookie.

The doctor came out and called my name. Peter and I followed him to his office. It was all good news. He liked my t-shirt.

The blood tests were excellent so I am ready for chemo tomorrow. He said the tumor had pretty much disappeared compared to how big it was when we started. And it means that the blood thinning shot every morning can be discontinued after tomorrow mornings shot. YIPPEE. He said I could stop taking another pill. It was confirmed that I have Stage 1a. Which is also good news. I am probably going to only need 6 cycles to get rid of this cancer instead of 8 cycles. Even more good news. So we were relieved. Finally.

We came home happy and ate some leftovers for lunch and then I took care of some of the loose ends with my company before I took a short nap before dinner. Time for dinner and some more leftovers...(thank god we have eaten all of them now). FOOD.

Time then for me, accompanied by my dad, to drive Peter to the airport for his work week in London and drop off the dog at the in-laws before stopping at the supermarket to get some food to make sandwiches for our fun day at the hospital tomorrow.

Now it is try to sleep and be rested for tomorrows event of hanging out in bed getting some drugs pumped into me to kill and kick this cancer's ass.

LOVED. GRATEFUL. RELIEVED. HAPPY. LIFE. KICK CANCER'S ASS